RE: Bleeding the Clutch

[Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>]

>Why do they put that loop in there?  Is it there just for mechanical
>reasons, so that you can pull on the line and the loop acts like a spring?
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Since it's not the usual rubber or flexible variety there has to be some
means for the line to take up the motion between the engine moving on it's
rubber mounts and the rigid body.  That is what the service loop is for.
If it were rigidly affixed then it would tear itself loose.  It's actually
quite a nice way to do it.  You never have to worry about a rubber line
failure or rupture- 


Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net

72 V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
70 Spitfire (long term project)